Retirement Plan Specialist I (Work from Home)

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About Us 

 

At Transamerica, hard work, innovative thinking, and personal accountability are qualities we honor and reward. We understand the potential unleashed by leveraging the talents of a diverse workforce. We embrace an environment where employees enjoy a balance between their careers, families, communities, and personal interests.  

 

Ultimately, we appreciate the uniqueness of a company where talented professionals work collaboratively in a positive environment — one focused on helping people look forward and plan for the best life possible while providing tools and solutions that make it easier to get there. 

    

Transamerica is a part of Aegon, an integrated, diversified, international financial services group. The Aegon companies employ over 21,500 people and have approximately 31.7 million customers.* For more information,  visit www.transamerica.com. 

 

Who We Are 

  

Transamerica has been making financial services available to the many, not just the few, for more than 100 years. We’re a leading provider of life insurance, retirement, and investment solutions, serving millions of customers throughout the United States. Transamerica’s dedicated professionals focus on helping people live their best lives through saving, investing, and protecting their loved ones. Transamerica is dedicated to building America’s leading middle market life insurance and retirement company, providing a broad range of quality individual life insurance policies, workplace supplemental insurance benefits, workplace retirement plans, individual retirement accounts, and investment products, including mutual funds, annuities, stable value solutions, as well as investment management services. 

 

What We Do 

 

Transamerica is organized by lines of business (Life Insurance, Annuities, Mutual Funds, Retirement Plans, and Employee Benefits), which are supported by Transamerica Corporate (Corporate Development; Finance; Internal Audit; Legislative, Regulatory & Policy; Office of the CEO; People and Places; Brand; Corporate Affairs; Risk; and Technology). 

Job Description Summary

Now interviewing for multiple openings for our April 1st and May 6th classes!

How long is your commute?
The Retirement Plan Specialist role is fully remote!

Are you an experienced Financial Advisor or Retirement Professional who is tired of prospecting and would love to work with ongoing warm leads, build relationships, and assist clients with their financial challenges?
Do you wish that instead of a high pressure, commission-only position you could work from home 40 hours per week, receive a bi-weekly base salary PLUS monthly, quarterly, and annual bonuses?
Then our team is the answer you are looking for!
You must hold FINRA Series 6, 63, and 65; OR Series 7 and 66 at time of hire.

Job Description

Advice Center hours are 7:00am CST to 7:00pm CST Monday through Friday. Shifts are 8 hours with overtime available. You must be available and willing to work until 7:00pm CST 2 days during the week.

What you will do:

You will serve as a trusted advisor to the participants of Transamerica’s expansive book of qualified retirement accounts from Transamerica’s employer sponsored plans, helping participants to understand their options with their qualified savings, assisting them in setting goals, calculating exactly what it will take to achieve those goals, and implementing the plan.

What you will learn:

You will be working with an experienced and results-oriented team of financial professionals utilizing modern technology to solve individual retirement challenges of our plan participants. You will work in an environment that offers continuous personal and professional development to craft your skills as a consummate fiduciary that will personally embark on a journey to retirement success with thousands of Transamerica’s clients.

Responsibilities

• Become fully fluent and competent with respect to all issues related to qualified retirement plans and how they operate, what their advantages and limitations are
• Advise clients of their options in regard to their retirement planning
• Build trusting relationships with individual clients, helping them to articulate what their own success looks like and what the rewards of their success will be
• Provide planning and advice regarding clients’ investment and retirement strategy
• Work with a dedicated assistant to attend to the necessary administrative work associated with financial transactions, and successfully fund at least 15-20 accounts monthly
• Maintain a constant pipeline of clients to close continual business throughout the month
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